The woes of Windows 10

Re:The woes of Windows 10 by semi-extrinsic on Thursday February 02, 2017 @12:44PM (#13552576)

Regarding hard drive encryption backed by TPM, a) this has been a thing since Win7, and b) google tells me it only works OOTB on Win10 if you sign into Windows with your Microsoft account; how many people do that?

If that's the secret sauce that makes Win10 so much better, color me unimpressed. And neither of those features offer additional protection against zero-days (neither does VSM), which are what the TFA discusses.

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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by wildmusings on Thursday February 02, 2017 @01:33PM (#13553112)

It only works OOTB with a Microsoft Account because the OS needs a place to backup the key. The alternative is that if the user forgets their password, they lose their data forever. You can still turn it on manually very easily with a local account.

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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by chrisper on Thursday February 02, 2017 @03:18PM (#13554229)

I am running Bitlocker without a Microsoft Account. You can just print out the recovery key instead (or you can just configure bitlocker through command line).

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